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an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...

from easy to implement in an organization. Covey subsequently released a book called The 8th Habit, which has to do with personal ...

of community and religious leaders, as well as other stakeholders, is to facilitate and aid teachers in their jobs, not to try to ...

I also typically have strong opinions as to how a job ought to be done. Therefore, my tendency has been to micromanage, take on th...

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

are very similar and one will find the same or very similar components and steps across models. 2. Theory E and Theory O Leaders...

as being led into making decisions by events and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the ...

own sake; vision provides a reason for undertaking time-consuming and often difficult change initiatives. Change Resistance...

Leadership in business is not really a topic until the twentieth century, before this it was a case of managing business; as such ...

ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...

variety of different parties while promoting "their recombination in a loosely synthesized mix" (Skowronek, 1997, p. 449). Dwight ...

Unfortunately, unlike quantitative skills such as financial analysis, risk assessment, project management, and so on, leadership i...

controversial. This is because, typically speaking, the study of ethics concerns itself with abstracted justifications of human ac...

orders and who commands total discipline, like a military commander. It is not difficult to understand from where such a concept e...

have taken the front seat like at no other time in history. Many successful CEOs and executives have become celebrities in their o...

A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...

world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...

is based primarily upon Christian morals and values, due to Sanders belief that this particular set of values is well suited to de...

transformational leadership (Bass, 1990). Transactional leadership, in general, is a leadership approach focused on processes and ...

however, it is important that leadership development include everyone in the organization (Putney, 2011). It is, of course, unreas...

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...

organization when the leadership is shared between every member of the organization, with each member having responsibility and ac...

2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...

more affordable, and in todays world, integrating computers into ones business architecture is a matter of necessity rather than p...

sort of person who can truly identify with the values the organization wishes to promote, and so on (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Th...

become outdated by the time the text reached print, but on the basis of principles that, according to the author, are "universal a...

leadership and attempt to present a more nuanced approach to the skills or qualities associated with leaders in the personal sense...

and its basic conceit, around which the paper will be based. The primary theme of Goodwins work is that the presidency of Abraham ...

equally useful lessons about leadership. With that in mind, this paper will explore the leadership actions of one of recent histor...